Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

Start Over Subject Media and Popular Culture Subject Film and Television Region North America Era 20th Century

1. A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography

Author: Mireille Miller-Young
Publication date: 2014

2. Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood

Author: Kimberly D. McKee
Publication date: 2023

3. Buffy to Batgirl: Essays on Female Power, Evolving Femininity, and Gender Roles in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Editor: Julie M. Still and Zara T. Wilkinson
Publication date: 2019

4. Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom

Author: Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
Publication date: 2016

5. Education and the Female Superhero: Slayers, Cyborgs, Sorority Sisters, and Schoolteachers

Author: Andrew L. Grunzke
Publication date: 2020

6. Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe

Editor: Marcelline Block
Publication date: 2015

7. Gendered Defenders: Marvel's Superheroines in Transmedia Spaces

Editor: Bryan J. Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen
Publication date: 2022

8. Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise

Author: Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Publication date: 2021

9. Girlhood on Disney Channel: Branding, Celebrity, and Femininity

Author: Morgan Genevieve Blue
Publication date: 2017

10. Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History

Author: Elana Levine
Publication date: 2020

11. Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Media Depictions of Wives and Mothers

Author: Sara Hosey
Publication date: 2019

12. Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy

Editor: Linda Mizejewski and Victoria Sturtevant
Publication date: 2017

13. Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media

Author: Jasmine Mitchell
Publication date: 2020

14. LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights

Author: Susan Burgess
Publication date: 2023

15. Mama's Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression

Author: Marlo D. David
Publication date: 2016

16. Marvel's Black Widow from Spy to Superhero: Essays on an Avenger with a Very Specific Skill Set

Editor: Sherry Ginn
Publication date: 2017

17. Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia

Editor: Linda Mizejewski and Tanya D. Zuk
Publication date: 2021

18. Paid to Care: Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture

Author: Rachel Randall
Publication date: 2024

19. Single Lives: Modern Women in Literature, Culture, and Film

Editor: Katherine Fama and Jorie Lagerwey
Publication date: 2022

20. Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation

Author: Carolyn Cocca
Publication date: 2016